Agenda item

Report of the Managing Director.

Members received a report of the Managing Director providing updates from

the six Barbican Directors on their respective areas. The Directors spoke to each update, with a number of questions asked by the Board:

A feasibility study was underway into the potential for a new concert hall and this exercise was being led by the Barbican Centre. Members agreed that better integration between the Board and the LSO was necessary and Officers should seek ways to ensure this occurs. Officers informed the Committee that consideration as being given to the introduction of joint meetings between the LSO, the Barbican Centre Board and the Guildhall School for Music and Drama.

Members noted an update regarding the Crossrail works and were informed that  the  Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Elizabeth was expected to be entering the

vicinity of the Barbican Lakeside adjacent to the Concert Hall around the

15th April followed by TBM Victoria (west bound tunnel) at the end of

April. In order to assess and measure baseline ambient noise levels within the

Concert Hall, Crossrail engineers had taken acoustic readings during the "silent" night time hours on 26th March. Further readings would be made when the TBM was passing and during the period of the constructional railway works which follow

RESOLVED – that the report be received.